Readers of the Daily Sceptic will have seen our coverage of the recent incident at San Francisco State University, where the national championship silver-medallist female swimmer Riley Gaines was made the target of intimidation, assaults, false imprisonment and extortion by trans activists who were protecting the principle that trans women are women, and should compete in women’s sports and be entitled to gold medals. What readers may not be aware is that, based on the available facts, their attacks didn’t go nearly far enough to stop violence against women.
To understand the sheer scale of the violence against women on U.S. college campuses, we have only to refer to the Association of American Universities’ 2020 report, which points out that 18% of women taking a four-year undergraduate course will have been raped at least once by the end of it. This isn’t just unwanted touching or groping, but rape. And this figure is closely replicated in another study by RTI International.
I’m sure we can agree that this 18% figure is astonishing – although the violence against women would surely be much worse if trans women weren’t allowed in women’s bathrooms, or in women’s sports like kickboxing. But to put this into context, let us consider the occupation of Bucha by Russian forces in 2022. This lasted for 19 days, with a total of 25 rapes reported by the survivors, plus an unknown number of rapes amongst those murdered – suggesting a rough estimate of perhaps 50 women being raped once or more during this 19-day period. Bucha had a pre-war population of 37,321, with roughly 53.7% of the population being female. If we estimate that around 3,000 women were evacuated, this suggests a female population of roughly 17,000 at that time. From this we can extrapolate that, if the Russian occupation had lasted as long as a four-year undergraduate course (about 1,100 days), the chance of any individual woman being raped would have been slightly less than on a U.S. college campus, at only 17% (including weekends).
The massive rise in mental illness on U.S college campuses should therefore come as no surprise. Who could possibly process and accept these shocking figures, altruistically taught to students by our noble activist-professors, without becoming mentally ill? Of course students have to organise themselves into violent mobs in order to create campus safe spaces, so as to protect themselves against the likes of Riley Gaines by forcing her into a room for three hours. But there is so much gaslighting; and just like the Russians, the abusers invent all manner of lies and excuses, such as that “Drunken sex isn’t really rape”, or “If there’s so much rape then why isn’t there more murder and gang warfare on campus?” We mustn’t give in to this nonsense, which is just like saying that women can’t have penises, or that Golda Meir was merely Lyndon B. Johnson in drag. If you can’t see there is already anti-woman gang warfare on campus, you’re probably a transphobe.
What we have done so far is admirable. But even as we armed Ukraine against the illegal Russian aggression, we may have to work much harder to bring peace to U.S. college campuses, where the level of violence against women has been scientifically proven to be worse. Even the most pessimistic expectations for the upcoming Ukrainian counter-offensive this spring semester put the likelihood of a Ukrainian victory in Crimea much higher than any possible gains on Californian campuses before the end of the traditional fighting season in August.
In short, we must increase deliveries of political support and weaponry to these plucky students, who – I’m sure we can all agree – have until now been far too restrained and mostly peaceful. We must learn that killing transphobes with rifles merely demonstrates who the real victims are, and if we don’t arm and support trans activists ever more forcefully, we are merely excusing violence against all women. We must leave them in no doubt about who the real thugs are.
History has an important lesson to teach us. The famous “Flower Power” photograph, taken during the Vietman War protests, shows us that the spiritual and intellectual forebears of the current protesters understood that rifles can, in the right hands, become instruments of peace. But in this profound realisation, they were merely echoing the sentiments of the great Mao Zedong, who – if I may paraphrase – poignantly noted that “political power grows, like a flower, out of the barrel of a gun”.
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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Yep I was having difficulty believing these figures until I worked out the lads don’t even realise they are doing it because it’s institutional rapism.
Am I reading this wrong, is this parody?
Yes.
Or at least I hope so!
I was wondering that, it went straight over my head.
Am I reading your comment wrong, is this Poe’s Law?
My efforts to understand the first paragraph ended in a serious case of brain entanglement. I had a cup of tea and then went for a walk. Much better now.
“My efforts to understand” … this article have failed miserably.
‘Before things get ugly.’ The article has the sole redeeming feature of reminding me of Paul Newman’s eponymous ‘Harper’ in the 1966 film. The Sheriff (bad guy) says to our hero: “I could get ugly about this.” To which Newman replies: “You ARE ugly.”
It’s far too early to spark one up Ian.
“To understand the sheer scale of the violence against women on U.S. college campuses, we have only to refer to the Association of American Universities’ 2020 report, which points out that 18% of women taking a four-year undergraduate course will have been raped at least once by the end of it. This isn’t just unwanted touching or groping, but rape. And this figure is closely replicated in another study by RTI International”
I recall a report about a “U.S.” city where after guns were legalised, various crimes, including violations of women, decreased. Whether protecting women and children is a priority for the Democrat party in that country is another matter (and I think also of the massacre that was prevented by a passer by armed with a gun who stopped the assailant).
I might also add, I seem to recall a piece in a newspaper some years ago (possibly the Guardian?) which claimed that the hard left have a bit of a blind spot about violations of women.
And Jews.
Wow, this is certainly positive news;
”Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: all vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage.Whilst it is unfortunate that they cite high prevalence of natural immunity and low levels of virus circulation as primary motivation, rather than the complete ineffectiveness and damage caused by the “vaccine”, it still represents the most courageous act by a public health authority.
Nevertheless, they do still mention those last two facts. It’s progress. Pushing liability onto the doctors is very welcome. Maybe, they’ll put a bit more thought into the part they are playing in the democide.”
https://metatron.substack.com/p/switzerland-withdraws-all-covid-vaccination
“Pushing liability onto the doctors is very welcome”
For those Drs and others in the medical industry in the UK who bother to do some research or engage in periods of CPD (continuous professional development) this development must surely be a wake up call – he wrote optimistically – or perhaps even a ruddy thunderbolt.
Welcome news nevertheless because it puts medics everywhere on notice.
“Not me guv” just won’t wash anymore and neither will “acting under orders your Honour.”
“Acting under orders” never worked. Remember Nuremburg Medical Trials…?
Good news Mogs. Do you think this court action had anything to do with it?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-swiss-court-action-over-vaccine-injuries-turn-the-worldwide-tide/
I was thinking it’s possibly something to do with the banker who’s currently suing the Swiss Health Minister regarding his fraudulent claims about the death jabs;
https://theswisstimes.ch/swiss-banker-files-criminal-charges-over-false-covid-vaccine-statements/
I’ve no idea what point this article is trying to make.
Two words:
Ian
Rons
WTF??
ChatGPT hacked poor Mr Rons’ brain.
Looks like the DS nas been hacked.
Too subtle for me, had to look twice at the headline and still don’t get it.
Lawlessness reigns on these campuses, inside and outside the classrooms.
Yeah, I’m taking the fucking piss. Weird how many people affecting English didn’t get it.
We all got it, Ian. Anyone not appearing to get it was only taking the fucking piss.
Well don’t get upset old chap, old bean, old man.
Weird that you say “we all” though.
I’m only taking the fucking piss, Ian.
Spoken like a true… erm… Englishman.
If you have to explain the joke…
The West will have to arm trans activists in order to win.
Your tenks are stronk. Russian tenks. Stronk.
Oh, do shut up.
Weird how a p1sh article like this was allowed to be published in the first place.
Are we not supposed to be Sceptics, to see through the blarney and bullshit? Well, this article is good training. We should take nothing at face value and THINK!
Trolling the Daily Skeptic again.
Might have been funny a week ago.
What a weird article! I sincerely hope it’s parody! I don’t like IR bringing in the Russia/Ukraine conflict which has absolutely nothing to do with the problems real women are having in sport (and everywhere?). If all the DS articles become like this, I will unsubscribe!
@Ian Rons – are those stats you quote correct about 18% of female undergraduates being raped – that seems quite high?
I lived in the district of Dunwoody, greater Atlanta GA, some 25 years ago. The neighbouring district of Kennesaw had recently prior had a problem with significantly increasing home burglary, so they mandated that every household must keep a loaded gun on the property. Burglaries fell to near zero. It’s how America works.
Now if you take guns away mayhem will ensue.
I presume this meant to be satire, but it misses any humour, so doesn’t work.